Terrain

Players

The parties contesting this election and the organisations campaigning around it: what each one is doing, where, and how you can take part.

14 of these profiles cover parties on the Victorian register as at 12 October 2026. Between them they cover 21 of the 22 parties on it, because the Other registered minors profile bundles eight. The register’s one remaining party, Christian Alliance Party – Reform AU, appears in the research only as a note on another profile. VEC

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Registered · Legislative Assembly representationthe four parties with lower-house seats

Four parties hold seats in the 88-member Legislative Assembly. Figures are the current composition before the 2026 count, not the 2022 result.

Registered · Legislative Council seatsupper-house crossbench and minor parties

The Legislative Council elects five members for each of eight regions. These parties hold Council seats and no Assembly seats.

Registered · no seat recordedregistered, currently unrepresented

Registered parties the research does not record holding a seat: two are stated at 0 in both chambers, and for three the profiles record no seat count at all. The Victorian Socialists are also running the largest unrepresented field, 79 sourced Assembly candidacies.

  • 0 seats

    Democratic Labour

    Registered 26 March 1985 as the Democratic Labour Party (DLP); 0 seats, after incumbent Adem Somyurek left the party to sit as an independent VECWikipedia .

  • no seat recorded

    Family First

    Registered 6 October 2022 as Family First Victoria; fielding Assembly candidates, with no Council candidacies sourced VECElection Tracker .

  • no seat recorded

    Other registered minors

    Registered together, with no or low sourced 2026 candidacies: Affordable Housing Now, Australian Citizens Party, Climate Action Now, Free Palestine, I’m Voting to Avoid the Fine, Safety Victoria, The Republican Make Australia Great Again and The West Party VECElection Tracker .

  • no seat recorded

    Save the Environment

    Registered 6 October 2022 as Put Australia First, Save the Environment, renamed from New Democrats; 0 sourced 2026 candidacies VECElection Tracker .

  • 0 seats

    Victorian Socialists

    Registered 6 June 2018; holds 0 seats and is running the largest unrepresented force — 79 Assembly + 10 Council sourced candidacies VECElection Tracker .

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Unions

The organised union movement in Victoria, which campaigns on workplace rights and against the far right.

  • Against One Nation

    Victorian Trades Hall Council

    It’s the peak union body in Victoria, and it campaigns through its We Are Union arm.

Climate and environment

Environment groups, alliances and a fund for community independents, campaigning on climate and nature in specific seats.

  • Scorecards

    ACF community groups

    The Australian Conservation Foundation’s community groups are running the state election campaign in specific seats.

    KewHawthorn
  • Backs independents

    Climate 200

    A not-for-profit company that raises and directs money to community independent candidates.

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  • No position recorded

    Climate Council

    A community-funded climate communications charity.

  • Asks all parties

    Environment Victoria

    An environment organisation running a dedicated 2026 state election hub.

  • Asks all parties

    Friends of the Earth Melbourne

    A Melbourne-based environment group running a “Maintain the momentum” election campaign.

  • Scorecards

    Lighter Footprints

    A non-partisan climate group in Melbourne’s east, working with the Kooyong Climate Change Alliance.

    KewHawthorn
  • Asks all parties

    Victorians for Nature

    An alliance of the Victorian National Parks Association, the Wilderness Society, Environment Victoria and the Victorian Forest Alliance, running the “Victorians for Nature” campaign.

Issue campaigns

Organisations campaigning on a single issue or a narrow set of them, from migrant rights to renters to preferencing.

  • Asks all parties

    ASRC

    The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is running an election volunteer team under the banner “help hope defeat hate”. It is aimed explicitly at countering anti-migrant politics in the campaign .

  • Asks all parties

    Council to Homeless Persons

    The peak body on homelessness in Victoria. It has published an Election Priorities Guide 2026, which sets out what it wants from the next government .

  • Against One Nation

    GetUp

    A national progressive campaigning organisation.

  • Asks all parties

    Tenants Victoria

    A renters’ advocacy organisation running a “Dignity” election platform. Its asks are renters’ rights, closing the minimum-standards loophole, a rental registration scheme and an excessive-rent checker. It also publishes elector…

  • Asks all parties

    VCOSS

    The Victorian Council of Social Service, the peak body for the community sector. It has published a 2026 Election Platform, which sets out six priority areas for community organisations .

  • Preferencing guides

    Vote Climate One

    A volunteer group that publishes traffic-light preferencing guides for each electorate, telling voters which candidates are strongest on climate. For this election the guides come out after the ballot draw on 11 November 2026 a…

  • Asks all parties

    Wildlife Victoria

    A wildlife rescue and advocacy organisation running a “Vote 1 for Wildlife” campaign with six asks. They include ending duck hunting, strengthening the Wildlife Act and ending kangaroo harvesting. Its public actions include enr…

Advocacy and campaign vehicles

Organisations that spend on advertising and electoral communication rather than field work. A third-party campaigner files its own return, so the money is visible even where the funders are not.

  • Campaigns against

    Advance Australia

    A conservative campaigning organisation, formed in 2018 as a response to GetUp! .

  • No position recorded

    Australian Christian Lobby

    A Christian advocacy organisation formed in 1995, and also a registered charity .

  • Campaigns against

    Australians for Prosperity

    A significant third party whose money comes from the coal industry.

  • Campaigns against

    Fix Victoria

    A Victorian advocacy group registered as an incorporated association on 29 June 2026, campaigning on crime, corruption and debt .

Think tanks

Organisations producing research and policy rather than running volunteers. They appear here because the research profiles them, alongside the campaigns they inform.

  • No position recorded

    McKell Institute

    A think tank that does state policy work, not field campaigning. Its Victorian-relevant work in this cycle includes Funding Fairer Housing (February 2026). That paper proposes a levy on individual landholdings worth over $20 mi…

  • No position recorded

    Menzies Research Centre

    The Liberal Party’s research institute, and an associated entity on the federal register: it files its own return and its parties are recorded as the Liberal Party of Australia and its divisions .

  • No position recorded

    Per Capita

    An independent public policy think tank with Victorian-focused work. That includes Saving TAFE Properly (September 2026), on what chronic Victorian government underfunding has done to vocational education, and its Centre for Eq…

How to read this

A seat tag means the research places that player in that district. A card without one records no seat, so the player works statewide. The tag at the top of an organisation’s card answers the question you probably brought to it — has it endorsed anyone? — with what the research records it doing. The research records no Victorian organisation endorsing a party for this election. Where a figure is the organisation’s own, like a volunteer target or a sum raised, the profile says so and cites it. Position in the list means nothing.

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